The World’s Sacred Places
Discover a curated guide to significant sacred places, pilgrimage traditions, architecture, documented history and practical visitor information across cultures and faith traditions.
Curated Discovery
Browse Sacred Places selected for Templestan’s public collection.
A monumental Tibetan Buddhist stupa in Benalmádena dedicated to the Buddha’s enlightenment and used for meditation, teaching and devotional circumambulation.
A rare surviving medieval synagogue in Córdoba’s historic Jewish quarter, notable for Mudéjar plasterwork and Hebrew inscriptions.
Granada’s principal contemporary mosque, inaugurated in 2003 in the Albaicín opposite the Alhambra.
A globally important layered sacred site: the former Great Mosque of Córdoba, converted to a Catholic cathedral after the Christian conquest.
A rare rural mosque preserved in the Sierra de Aracena, later adapted to Christian use while retaining its Islamic prayer-hall character.
A major Sevillian devotional basilica and home of the celebrated Esperanza Macarena image carried in the city’s Holy Week processions.
The Marian shrine at El Rocío, destination of a vast annual Pentecost pilgrimage involving confraternities from across Spain.
A major Renaissance cathedral created after the Christian conquest of Granada, notable for the work of Diego de Siloé.
The royal funerary chapel beside Granada Cathedral, built for the Catholic Monarchs and containing their tombs.
A monumental Gothic cathedral built on the site of Seville’s former Almohad congregational mosque, with the Giralda preserving the earlier minaret.
